A three-run double by sophomore Bob Lewis (Highland, IN/Highland) gave the Wabash College baseball team a lead it would never relinquish on the way to a 9-3 victory at Franklin College on Wednesday afternoon.
Lewis went added another RBI with a single in the fifth to score starting pitcher Bill Goff (JR/Brownsburg, IN/Brownsburg). Lewis finished the day 2-of-5 with four RBIs. Sophomore Travis Moore (Crawfordsville, IN/Crawfordsville) came on in relief of Goff in the fourth, throwing five innings while allowing only one unearned run to pick up his second win of the season. Moore allowed only three hits and struck out four. Goff worked three innings, striking out four while holding the Grizzlies to three hits and two runs.
Wabash trailed 1-0 before Lewis’ bases loaded double to right brought home Goff, Chris Sides (SO/Brownsburg, IN/Brownsburg), and Mike Mack (SR/Butler, IN/Eastside). The Grizzlies trimmed the Wabash lead to one run after scoring in the third. But the Little Giants manufactured a run of their own in the fourth when Danny Schubert (JR/Lebanon, IL/Lebanon) reached on a walk and came around to score on an error by Franklin.
Lewis’ RBI single in the fifth was joined by a sacrifice fly by Schubert that brought Sides home to put the Little Giants up 6-2. Wabash tacked two more runs on the Franklin scoreboard when Sides launched a two-run double to right center.
Freshman Brandon Heller (Carthage, IN/Rushville) picked up the final score of the game for the Little Giants in the ninth, bring Mack home from third after a single and a two-base error set up the insurance run.
Sides finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Mack was 3-for-3 with two runs scored.
The victory moves Wabash to 12-19 for the season. The Little Giants will try to pick up career victory number 100 for head coach Tom Flynn this weekend when they play a three-game set against the DePauw Tigers. The series begins with a nine-inning contest at Mud Hollow Field at 3 p.m. on Friday before moving to Greencastle on Saturday for two seven-inning contests.